System Attribution in LLM Brand Recommendations: Single Responses Identify the System, Aggregated Brand Profiles Do Not Transfer

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arXiv:2610.00253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audits of AI visibility summarise the brand recommendations of deployed language models into per-system profiles. We test whether such a profile describes the system on one corpus of 6,475 stored responses (6,324 analysable) collected between December 2025 and February 2026 from five deployed endpoints across gift-recommendation, corporate-reputation and category-ownership queries. The collection harness cut many answers short: 83.1% of Gemini 3